Valentino Palmieri

Defensive Midfielder - Zadar
14 Aug 2027
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48 Edition

The Zadar Gazette

28 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market28 Jun 2027

Matthijs van Nispen hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Zadar can pretend not to have heard.

Squad28 Jun 2027

Valentino Palmieri is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad28 Jun 2027

Dejan Petkov in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Zadar this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad28 Jun 2027

Dino Kasalo falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad28 Jun 2027

The manager makes an example of Guti

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Boardroom28 Jun 2027

98% of the income goes out in wages at Zadar

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

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26 Edition

The Zadar Gazette

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad25 Jan 2027

Javi Hervás breaks a bone — 62 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 62 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad25 Jan 2027

Valentino Palmieri keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Zadar may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Market25 Jan 2027

Darijo Orsic asks to leave Zadar

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad25 Jan 2027

Tempers go at Zadar

Dino Kasalo was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad25 Jan 2027

Words at Zadar training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matthijs van Nispen is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Market25 Jan 2027

Andrej Vukas linked with a move away

The name of Andrej Vukas keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Zadar say nothing, which says plenty.

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